Alex Quotes

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.

Reinvent yourself. Repeat.

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

I like playing the villain.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.